Brain-Eating Amoeba Fatalities Linked to Common Cold Remedy

Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Two people have died this year in Louisiana after filling their neti pots with tap water that contained brain-eating amoebas, which then entered their brains through their nasal passages as they were using the devices.

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